Permitting spoofed traffic [Was: Re: ddos attack blog]

Sat Feb 15 02:05:11 UTC 2014

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On 2/14/2014 3:00 PM, Larry Sheldon wrote:

> On 2/14/2014 12:42 PM, Paul Ferguson wrote:
>> Taken to the logical extreme, the "right thing" to do is to deny
>> any spoofed traffic from abusing these services altogether.
> 
> Since the 1990s I have argued (ineffectively, it turns out) a case
> that says that sentence can be edited down to good advantage as:
> 
>> Taken to the logical extreme, the "right thing" to do is to deny
>> any spoofed traffic.
> 

But of course. :-)

- - ferg

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Paul Ferguson
VP Threat Intelligence, IID
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